The day after Thanksgiving we needed a good hike to help burn off some off that delicious dinner. Sure, we’d bagged two peaks on Thanksgiving Day, but I’m pretty sure they only covered the turkey and mashers. I still had stuffing and pie to burn off. So after our morning coffee we decided to head [...]
Early Thanksgiving morning, David and I left the Vegas strip for the Mojave desert. We met up with Sooz, Robin, and Gordon at 9 am to hike Table Top mountain, a striking mesa-like peak in the heart of Mojave National Preserve. Like the majority of desert peaks there is no established trail to the top [...]
Instead of flying to Michigan this year to see our families, David and I stuck around California for the holidays. We both missed our families, but it was such a relief to not pay ridiculous amounts of money to be incredibly inconvenienced and probably stranded in Chicago or Denver or some place that was neither [...]
Our fourth day in the desert was a half day since we had to get to Vegas. We headed out of the park to the east, towards Searchlight, and took a quick detour to the Hart Townsite just outside of the park boundary. Hart was a small town of about 400 gold miners, and there [...]
Our third day in the desert was a simple and relaxing one playing tourist in Mojave. We kept our camp at Mid Hills and took a short hike straight from our campsite over to two big rock jumbles known as Eagle Peaks. They looked more like they belonged in Joshua Tree. We also met some [...]
You heard me – Zzyzx. Pronounced Zi-Zix. The last entry when all geographic place names are listed alphabetically. Anyone who has driven the I-15 stretch from LA to Vegas knows that mysterious, middle-of-nowhere offramp to ‘Zzyzx’. It finally tempted us and this time we took the exit to explore all that Zzyzx has to offer. [...]
Predictably, we spent the Thanksgiving week in the deserts of Southern California. This year’s trip stuck to Mojave and Death Valley with a chunk of Las Vegas wedged in between. I’m in the process of posting photos and blog entries and they’ll be popping up here over the next few days. A brief glance at [...]
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